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Senna latifolia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(G. Meyer) H.S. Irwin & Barneby

Common Names

• Ingá de Morcego (Portuguese)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• tropical rain forest
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Aug

Liane, robust shrub or tree with tortuous upper branches, puberulent angled branches. Glabrous pinnate leaves with 4 leaflets to 160mm x 90mm, puberulent on veins beneath. Terminal or axillary panicles of yellow to orange flowers, sepals to 15mm long, petals to 30mm long. Brown fruit 300mm x 18mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fsu
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• FOPE